The (new) Official PC building thread!

Russ, I have the Q6600 remember? Damn, I can't WAIT to change my motherboard. I'm soo set on the P5E.

 

cincyrob,
You ought to take a look at one of these.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824112007
I've had mine for getting close to 2 years and it's excellent. Keep in mind that widescreens are considerably smaller than their 4:3 counterpart! my Sceptre is 20" but it's screen is only 10 5/8" tall and 17 1/8" wide. Scale that down to a 17 or a 19 inch and the screen gets really tiny!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

@Mort
i looked at that 22in HP thats sweet..but a little to big for the space i have. tbh the 19in is gonna be a tight fight.

as for the CPU's (E8400/E3110) i wouldnt recomend taking it over the 1.225v required. no higher than 1.30v they dont need that much voltage to preform. even a high OC (3.8+)IMHO wouldnt need over 1.35v. just my opinion.

@Russ.
funny i just looked at that one right before i seen your post real nice price on it....

the reviews on it arent to good cause of the speakers, but once again im not gameing or watching movies on my pc so im not to worried about the high quality sound machines..lol other than checking for sound thats it for me...

 

no built in monitor speakers are gonna sound worth a hoot period. I have mine unplugged. your much better off getting a cheapo set of desktop speakers.

I couldn't live without my klispch 2.1 speaker set. I'm gonna upgrade to klipsch 5.1 speakers one of these days.

 

cincyrob,

Just goes to show you the "Idiot Factor" at work! Who in their right mind would complain about the tiny speakers on a monitor. They're all still crap to begin with. Were they planning on hooking up their HD Audio to it? LOL!! Seriously, it's been a very good monitor for me. No dead pixels after almost 2 years, and a great picture! You're going to need a 19" wide space for it to fit in! Never even used the speakers once! LOL!!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

rob here's what I have at work and it's pretty sweet!! link to 19" ViewSonic...

Here's some speakers too. NOT true gaming speakers but the LogiTech X-230 aren't to bad for the money. link to speaker choices.. JUST trying to spend daddy-in-law's money.... hehehe.

...gm

 

My Two Cents.....yeah don't worry about the build in speakers just get a pair of desktop speakers when you can afford it,if you can't swing the 22" go with the Sceptre 20" widescreen Russ linked you to. there great monitiors for the money. but do some measuring and see if you can swing the 22" man its not that much more money. I've had Viewsonic for the last several years till i bought this Samsung 2493HM 24" widescreen and this baby is amazing 1920x1200 res kicks butt. and just think Rob i just sold my 22" veiwsonic with an I-Pod dock for 200.00 bucks. Mort thats what i have the Klipsch 5.1 speakers, there great

 

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143852

OMG OMG OMG........


I WANT IT NOW....NOW...NOW

ARGH



EACH OF YOU SEND ME £10 SO I CAN BUY IT

 

The ebuyer staff who frequent their forum has advised they are definitely coming in as are the Antec 300's

 

Nice choices

What satnav did you get - I recently got a navigo for £60 quid - spent half an hour putting TOMTOM on it and its great for the money.

 

I won't buy anything acer because usually it's awful, but not always.
As for the Twelve Hundred it's nice, but too late Antec - already bought my Lexa Blackline..
ZosoIV: The new 24" panels are undoubtedly great, but why are your posts so special that they need be all in red bold text? Your 2 cents are obviously more like ten dollars...

 

It's not that his posts are special, HE'S SPECIAL!!!! hehehe. ;P

...gm

Rob and LOCO good to hear you guys are ready for action.

 

wow is it red I'm color blind so i didn't know lol

 

oh you know it's red, don't play dumb.

for those wanting a good deal on a PSU Cooler Master 750W Pro $59.99 after MIR... + S&H tho...

...gm

 

and here's what you'll need to wear when using it!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826159410
LOL.
Gm, does that not strike you as a little TOO cheap for a 750W PSU?

 

so i bought that B grade p35c-ds3r.

and tried to boot into windows....not gonna happen.

it will go to bios, boot screens, but when i go to either vista or xp, BSOD.

everythign else works, on me old board, but not this one past boot.

at least it booted, and i got into the bios, added some voltage to the RAMs, which need 2.1 to work, whereas the p5n-e couldnt even show up on the screen.

now im hoping its the RAM, and gonna go to PC world (down my road), get som cheap ram, check, then give back after.



if it dont work, i got my money back form the p5n-e (£40) and from this hopefulyl soon (£45) which buys me a BRAND NEW retail P5K-E from ebuyer, with free delivery.


also i got a 7800GT for my 7600GS and £15....

and its artifacting

underclocked it, still atrifating.

not in 2D, only 3D.

told the guy i bought it off, and he said, he'll take it back, but he had it under water, so i took off the heatsink, and added AS 5 to the GPU and RAM and VRM and placed the heatsink back.

hopefully, an overnight ATI tool, 99% load atrifact scanner will settle the AS 5, and itll be fine, if not, i send it back.

and i was getting used to MAX 4xAA (full AF (on bar)) 1280x1024(max res) settings runnig nice at about 30fps.

 

Are you INSTALLING windows again for the new board?
you CANNOT migrate from an nforce chipset to an Intel one on the same install of XP or you WILL get Blue screens.

On a side note, spotted this uber cheap graphics card for anyone interested. http://www.saverstore.com/productin...=Savastore&product_id=20020216&pid=10&tid=129